A frequent commentator on religion in American public life, Jacob Lupfer is a contributing editor at Religion News Service. He is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Georgetown.
In recent years, country songwriters have seemed to be virtually required to produce jingoistic populist anthems. But the association of country and the political right is only a recent invention.
22-year-old Trevor Case has been sitting in a Nebraska jail since late last month for allegedly waterboarding his girlfriend. According to police reports, after accusing Danielle Stallworth of…
Kyle Garton-Gundling holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is working on a book about the influence of Buddhism and Hinduism on post-1945 American literature. He…
American indie rockers may be discovering religion, but Irish band the Saw Doctors have been astute observers of religious hypocrisy for twenty years now.